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Oleg Anastasyev commented on CASSANDRA-7872:
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I cannot agree with you.
Having Plan B is better for reliability, than not having it at all. This whole
ticket is about Plan B.
C* is recommended to run on Oracle's Java, it would not likely run on anything
else (just b/c it uses undocumented classes, like sun.misc.Cleaner for
example). Oracle's Java has contract for PhRefs and the way how it is
implemented. This way is stable and will be supported by JDK team in future to
do not break backward compatibility, this is how they do JDK development. It
fits purpose of cleaning things out which cannot be cleaned other way.
So not using a feature of JDK and leave garbage on disk, because of possible
existence of some abstract JDK out there with different behavior (on which C*
will not likely work anyway) is just to sacrifice reliability for nothing.
> ensure compacted obsolete sstables are not open on node restart and nodetool
> refresh, even on sstable reference miscounting or deletion tasks are failed.
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7872
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Oleg Anastasyev
> Assignee: Oleg Anastasyev
> Fix For: 2.0.11
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> Attachments: EnsureNoObsoleteSSTables-7872-v2.0.txt
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> Since CASSANDRA-4436 compacted sstables are no more marked with
> COMPACTED_MARKER file. Instead after they are compacted, DataTracker calls
> SSTableReader.markObsolete(), but the actual deletion is happening later on
> SSTableReader.releaseReference().
> This reference counting is very fragile, it is very easy to introduce a
> hard-to-catch and rare bug, so this reference count never reaches 0 ( like
> CASSANDRA-6503 for example )
> This means, that very rarely obsolete sstable files are not removed from disk
> (but are not used anymore by cassandra to read data).
> If more than gc grace time has passed since sstable file was not removed from
> disk and operator issues either nodetool refresh or just reboots a node,
> these obsolete files are being discovered and open for read by a node. So
> deleted data is resurrected, being quickly spread by RR to whole cluster.
> Because consequences are very serious (even a single not removed obsolete
> sstable file could render your data useless) this patch makes sure no
> obsolete sstable file can be open for read by:
> 1. Removing sstables on CFS init analyzing sstable generations (sstable is
> removed, if there are another sstable, listing this as ancestor)
> 2. Reimplementing COMPACTED_MARKER file for sstable. This marker is created
> as soon as markObsolete is called. This is neccessary b/c generation info can
> be lost (when sstables compact to none)
> 3. To remove sstables sooner then restart - reimplemented the good old GC
> phantom reference queue as well.
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